Williams v. Sweet’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The province of a jury is to decide debatable questions of fact. Where, from all the facts, it is manifest that a single conclusion only would be consistently sustainable, the canon of the law imports the duty that the sitting Justice shall instruct the returning of a verdict proper to the circumstances. The reason is in the principle that prevention is better than cure. Heath v. Jaquith, 68 Maine, 433; Jewell v. Gagne, 82 Maine, 430; Coleman v. Lord, 96 Maine, 192; Reed v. Reed, 113 Maine, 522; Royal v. Bar Harbor Water Company, 114 Maine, 220.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Giles v. Putnam